Corsham / Cosseham

Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 6 September 2020)

Results: 8 records

design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil

Scene Description: may have been re-tooled [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 May 2018 by Hugh Llewelyn [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Corsham_Church_(St._Bartholomew)_(42443993482).jpg] [accessed 6 September 2020]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 May 2018 by Hugh Llewelyn [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Corsham_Church_(St._Bartholomew)_(42443993482).jpg] [accessed 6 September 2020]

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 February 2020 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 6 September 2020)

view of basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 February 2020 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 6 September 2020)

view of church exterior in context - northeast view

Source caption: "Corsham Church (St. Batholomew), Wiltshire, 11 May 2019. Remains of early 11th Century Saxon Church in south wall of chancel and part of west wall of nave now incorporated in the arcade. Rest of church mostly 12th Century Norman and 14th Century Decorated with 15th Century nave roof but heavily restored (i.e. virtually rebuilt) in 1875-78 by G E Street who demolished old central tower and built a new south tower with spire whilst C F Hansom remodelled the chancel in 1880 and added the Methuen Chapel. Pictured is the church from the south west."

Scene Description: Source caption: "Corsham Church (St. Batholomew), Wiltshire, 11 May 2019. Remains of early 11th Century Saxon Church in south wall of chancel and part of west wall of nave now incorporated in the arcade. Rest of church mostly 12th Century Norman and 14th Century Decorated with 15th Century nave roof but heavily restored (i.e. virtually rebuilt) in 1875-78 by G E Street who demolished old central tower and built a new south tower with spire whilst C F Hansom remodelled the chancel in 1880 and added the Methuen Chapel. Pictured is the church from the south west."

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 11 May 2019 by Hugh Llewelyn [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Corsham_Church_(St._Batholomew)_(47850530401).jpg] [accessed 6 September 2020]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Source caption: "Corsham Church (St. Bartholomew), 5 May 2018. Remains of early 11th Century Saxon Church in south wall of chancel and part of west wall of nave now incorporated in the arcade. Rest of church mostly 12th Century Norman and 14th Century Decorated with 15th Century nave roof but heavily restored (i.e. virtually rebuilt) in 1875-78 by G E Street who demolished old central tower and built a new south tower with spire whilst C F Hansom remodelled the chancel in 1880 and added the Methuen Chapel. Pictured is the 12th Century Norman nave (looking towards the chancel) although the south arcade incorporates the original Saxon wall."

Scene Description: Source caption: "Corsham Church (St. Bartholomew), 5 May 2018. Remains of early 11th Century Saxon Church in south wall of chancel and part of west wall of nave now incorporated in the arcade. Rest of church mostly 12th Century Norman and 14th Century Decorated with 15th Century nave roof but heavily restored (i.e. virtually rebuilt) in 1875-78 by G E Street who demolished old central tower and built a new south tower with spire whilst C F Hansom remodelled the chancel in 1880 and added the Methuen Chapel. Pictured is the 12th Century Norman nave (looking towards the chancel) although the south arcade incorporates the original Saxon wall."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 May 2018 by Hugh Llewelyn [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Corsham_Church_(St._Bartholomew)_(28623076268).jpg] [accessed 6 September 2020]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church interior - nave - south arcade - detail

Scene Description: Source caption; "Corsham Church (St. Bartholomew), 5 May 2018. Remains of early 11th Century Saxon Church in south wall of chancel and part of west wall of nave now incorporated in the arcade. Rest of church mostly 12th Century Norman and 14th Century Decorated with 15th Century nave roof but heavily restored (i.e. virtually rebuilt) in 1875-78 by G E Street who demolished old central tower and built a new south tower with spire whilst C F Hansom remodelled the chancel in 1880 and added the Methuen Chapel. Pictured is a pillar of the south arcade showing the exposed Saxon rubble."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 May 2018 by Hugh Llewelyn [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Corsham_Church_(St._Bartholomew)_(42443992282).jpg] [accessed 6 September 2020]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of font and cover

Scene Description: may have been re-tolled in the 1870s renovation of the church by G.E. Street

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 February 2020 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 6 September 2020)

INFORMATION

FontID: 13756COR

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Bartholomew

Church Patron Saints: St. Bartholomew

Church Location: Church Square, Corsham SN13 0BY, UK -- Tel.: +44 1249 713232

Country Name: England

Location: Wiltshire, South West

Directions to Site: Located on the A4, W of the A350, 6 km NE of Chippenham, 14 km NE of Bath, 32 SE of Bristol

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Bristol

Historical Region: Hundred of Chippenham

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Decorated? / Perpendicular?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this font

Church Notes: a priory in Corsham is documented in 1201 but may have become inactive by 1294; the present church is 12thC with Saxon foundations; Victorian restoration 1875-1878 by G.E. Street; the other churches here are modern

Font Notes: Click to view

There is an entry for Corsham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/ST8670/corsham/] [accessed 6 September 2020]; it reports "2 churches. 3.0 church lands" in it. A font here is described in 'Church notes...' (1887) in the context of some "notes [that] were taken between 1835 and 1840": "The font has a large octagonal bowl, and is probably Decorated." Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1975): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with quatrefoils." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: ST8742470553] notes: "Anglican parish church, C12 origins, early C14 north aisle, later C14 south aisle and east end remodelled in C15. Heavily restored 1875-78 by G.E. Street when central tower was removed and south tower and spire added [...] C15 octagonal font." The font, which may have had some re-tooling, consists of an octagonal basin with vertical sides deeply carved with floral motifs inscribed in quatrefoils; the underbowl is graded on the upper half and has a slightly concave chamfer below; the octagonal pedestal base is panelled on the sides and moulded at the bottom. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat; modern. [NB: we have no information on the font of the Domesday-time church here]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.432358, -2.183046

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 25′ 56.49″ N, 2° 10′ 58.97″ W

UTM: 30U 556790 5698223

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?

Number of Pieces: 3?

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

"Church notes, chiefly in Berks, Wilts, and Oxford, with a few in Somerset and Gloucestershire", 44, Archaeological Journal, 1887, pp. 43-50; 185-193; 291-303; 397-402; p. 190

Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912